In the early 1980s, Mark Toigo began making weekly trips from his family’s farm to farmers markets with a pickup truck full of peaches, cherries, apricots and, as the summer faded, apples and pears. On a good day, he’d come home with $1,000. The produce he took to the farmers markets was “probably 1 percent
The Toigo family used to just scrape by on their 350-acre farm in Shippensburg, Pa. “It was a real ‘Green Acres’ experience: run-down and tired with no cash flow,” said Mark Toigo, who runs Toigo Orchards now with his parents and his brother. After Mr. Toigo graduated from college in the mid-1980’s he